How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 483
the envelope) the sendersname must be written. When all the gtiests have assembled, someone disguised asSaint Valentine, in a skull-cap, long white beard, made of cottonor wool, and long cloak, should enter the parlor, carrying on hisback the sack of valentines. He must stand in the centre ofthe… … \».»jvwA pliment, the first favor asked of him, a paper of bonbons, by aboy. To make fun the bids should be as ridiculous as possible.Saint Valentine is to be at lib-erty to accept Avhatever bid hechooses. The payment of thedebt must be rigidly exactedby the sender of a valentine,whose identity is…
